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Before Breakfast

Second Cup: Maybe you don’t want to

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Education, Self-improvement

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

There could be a reason you keep pushing something forward

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Paul Muldoon, a poet who over the past several years has had the good fortune to record

0:07.9

ours of conversations with one of the world's greatest songwriters, Sir Paul McCartney.

0:14.0

The result is our new podcast, McCartney, A Life in lyrics.

0:20.6

Listen to McCartney, A Life in lyrics on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever

0:28.5

you get your podcasts.

0:33.6

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeart radio.

0:39.5

Good morning.

0:41.1

This is Laura.

0:42.9

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

0:45.5

Today's tip is that maybe you really don't want to do something.

0:50.9

We can convince ourselves that we should be doing all sorts of things, but if you don't

0:55.3

have to, and you don't want to, well, maybe better to just let it go.

1:03.7

If you are the sort of person who listens to Before Breakfast, my guess is that you make

1:08.3

lots of goals for yourself.

1:10.7

You have resolutions, you have lists.

1:13.8

I approve of all these things, but my guess is that you, like me, wind up putting some

1:20.1

things on these lists over and over again.

1:24.5

For instance, I put watching Casablanca on my list of 100 Dreams, and I am sure it is

1:30.0

an amazing movie, probably one of the best ever made.

1:34.1

So as a cultured person, I thought I should watch it.

1:38.1

And then I didn't.

1:40.8

I crossed several huge things off that list of 100 Dreams, like making an autumn trip out

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